Martin Desruisseaux wrote: > Hello Justin > > Justin Deoliveira a écrit : >> Sounds like you are making good progress. That said I would like to >> see a formal proposal with voting before any changes come back to >> geotools. Unfortunately the forking nature of how this work has been >> done represents a lot of risk to projects that depend critically on >> the geotools referencing code. > > Sure, it sound normal. But it is not a "take it or leave it" deal; the > merge with GeoTools will exists publicly on Mercurial anyway, so anyone > can create a clone and applies his own changes before an eventual commit > to the SVN. Then this repository should should not be called "GeoTools" in any way until the PSC/community votes it the official repository, or until the PSC/community accepts the merge of geotools + geotidy as "geotools 3.0".
There is already too much confusion around the relationship between GeoTidy and GeoTools. People have been told that GeoTidy == GeoTools 3.0, which is completely false and misleading imo. The Mercurial repository to be merged to GeoTools SVN > doesn't need to be our; it can be your clone if the community prefer > that way. And the merge can be applied on a SVN branch before the SVN > trunk. > >> I also think we need it to be easy to revert back to the current >> referencing code. While I realize you have worked hard to maintain >> most of the api and backward compatibility there will undoubtedly be >> regressions. Those regressions could be "deal breakers" so depending >> projects need a way to fall back onto the old code easily. > > Maybe by performing the merge on a SVN branch before the trunk? Or yet > before that, maybe by trying to checkout GeoTools from the Mercurial > clone where the merge will have been applied? Yeah, or perhaps just commenting out the referencing module in library/pom.xml, and keep the artifact from geotidy with the same group id and artifact id. > > Martin -- Justin Deoliveira OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Enterprise support for open source geospatial. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
